--- title: Automate Your GitHub Workflow with the GitHub MCP Server description: A walkthrough of using the GitHub MCP server with GitHub Copilot in VS Code to automate common development tasks. Covers installing the remote GitHub MCP... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/automate-your-github-workflow-with-the-github-mcp-server-i3quhjczv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Automate Your GitHub Workflow with the GitHub MCP Server | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of using the GitHub MCP server with GitHub Copilot in VS Code to automate common development tasks. Covers installing the remote GitHub MCP... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/automate-your-github-workflow-with-the-github-mcp-server-i3quhjczv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/i3QuHjcZv.png og:image:alt: Automate Your GitHub Workflow with the GitHub MCP Server og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Automate Your GitHub Workflow with the GitHub MCP Server **[Visual Studio Code](https://daily.dev/sources/vscode)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of using the GitHub MCP server with GitHub Copilot in VS Code to automate common development tasks. Covers installing the remote GitHub MCP server, using it to list and triage issues, rank issues by impact vs effort, fix bugs, open pull requests, trigger cloud-based code reviews, address review comments, and analyze code for performance issues — all without leaving VS Code. The MCP protocol is briefly explained as a way to expose APIs with natural language descriptions so LLMs can call them as tools. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the GitHub MCP server and what does it let an AI coding agent do? The GitHub MCP server is a Model Context Protocol server that wraps the GitHub API so LLM agents like Copilot can call it directly. It exposes around 48 tools covering actions such as listing issues, opening pull requests, listing releases, running code reviews, and secret scanning, each with a natural-language description the LLM uses to decide which tool to call. _Developers wiring AI agents into GitHub workflows follow MCP tooling updates like this on daily.dev._ ### Should I run the GitHub MCP server locally in Docker or use the remote hosted version? The remote GitHub MCP server, hosted by GitHub itself as an HTTP server at api.githubcopilot.com/mcp, avoids the need to self-host, unlike running it locally in Docker. It can be installed directly from the VS Code extensions panel, either globally or scoped to a single workspace via install-in-workspace. _Anyone choosing between self-hosted and managed MCP servers tracks setup tradeoffs like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [MCP integration in the GitHub Copilot SDK](https://daily.dev/posts/mcp-integration-in-the-github-copilot-sdk-3txkwat8u) · The Art of Simplicity · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Using MCP Servers with GitHub Copilot CLI](https://daily.dev/posts/using-mcp-servers-with-github-copilot-cli-yht9grxjc) · We Are .NET · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation), [#mcp](https://daily.dev/tags/mcp) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/automate-your-github-workflow-with-the-github-mcp-server-i3quhjczv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Automate Your GitHub Workflow with the GitHub MCP Server","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/automate-your-github-workflow-with-the-github-mcp-server-i3quhjczv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/automate-your-github-workflow-with-the-github-mcp-server-i3quhjczv"},"datePublished":"2026-07-23T14:03:33.722Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T18:41:05.203Z","description":"A walkthrough of using the GitHub MCP server with GitHub Copilot in VS Code to automate common development tasks. 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